Thank you, Chair. I'll be brief.
Thank you for that question.
We've talked a lot about the types of transfers that are unconditional. This is an example where there were quite a few conditions. The accountability framework that was put in place in 2008 had a number of different aspects, and very much the kind of thing that was put in place is typical of that portion of transfers where there are conditions. These are all following the transfer payment policy that the Comptroller General described.
For example, it requires a program evaluation. It requires some measurement of what the actual impacts are. It requires some reporting of information to the federal government from the province. It also had an interesting aspect on the question of incrementality. That's been mentioned several times today. It's a very interesting aspect, where it gets a third party to in fact certify that the funds were used incrementally--in other words, that the provinces didn't take the federal money and simply displace their own funding.